NSE and Host have today announced a partnership to provide career pathways into technology and also deliver more esports events for UK university students.
UK university esports body National Student Esports (NSE) and Host (the Home of Skills & Technology) want to provide employers with access to diverse talent and help prepare students for post-uni life.
In a press release, NSE said it ‘will build on a continued future career development offering and showcase Host’s state-of-the-art facilities and opportunities through running a series of events at its new Gametech campus in Salford’s MediaCity’.
NSE will be highlighting the training and developing opportunities through the Skills City digital bootcamps provided by Host, supporting the NSE community and providing them with access to a future career in the tech industry.
Alex Coulson, MD at NSE, said: “In addition to the British University Esports Championship, and all the community esports and gaming activity we run, we want to offer UK university students more value and opportunities by being a part of our community.
“The students are always our number one priority and we want to help them now and in their future careers, so working with the team at Host is a natural evolution for us.”
Alex Coulson, NSE
Simon Benson, director of immersive technology at Host, added: “Technology continues to be a driving force in society and we hope that this partnership will break some of the barriers that students may find themselves with when getting into the industry. With the right support, students immersed in esports and gaming are ideally placed to find a career in technology in any sector they choose.”
In other recent NSE news, a new UK University Call of Duty League supported by NSE was announced and the NSE British University Esports Championship will feature Fortnite for the first time.
The most recent Skills City Bootcamp applications have just closed, however the next set will be opening soon and students can apply for the Skills City Bootcamp waiting list on topics like Unity development, games development, cyber security, cloud engineering, data analytics or software engineering.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
